“This Is An Amazing Moment”: Stephen Miller Clashes With Jim Acosta, NYT Reporter Over Immigration

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“This Is An Amazing Moment”: Stephen Miller Clashes With Jim Acosta, NYT Reporter Over Immigration

ALLAHPUNDITPosted at 4:56 pm on August 2, 2017

 

Anyone still want to argue against my position that the White House briefing shouldn’t be televised? Watch these two tools, Acosta and Glenn Thrush, do their grandstanding best to filibuster Miller, with Acosta reduced to citing the poem on the Statue of Liberty to counter Miller’s points about assimilation and wage effects. What happened here is simple: Reporters knew they were going to go toe to toe today with one of the few committed nationalists in the White House on thepet issue of the populist right, the one that helped Donald Trump get elected and turned Steve Bannon into a power broker. They had to make their opposition plain, if not to the average person watching than at least to their colleagues in the media who would have torched them for not questioning Miller aggressively. This reeks of “virtue-signaling” even more than it does of standard media bias; Miller clearly gets the better of Acosta in particular on the substance of the policy — challenging him on why he privileges low-skilled foreigners over low-skilled Americans is a nice turnabout — but I don’t think Acosta minded.  

 

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Quite the slap down.